Out of Sight (novel)
1996 novel by Elmore Leonard
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Out of Sight is a 1996[1] crime fiction novel by Elmore Leonard.[2]
Plot
Jack Foley, a "gentleman bank robber," arranges a break-out from a Florida jail. The plan is interrupted by shotgun-toting Federal Marshal Karen Sisco. The pair end up in the trunk of the getaway car, where they find they have a mutual interest: classic Hollywood movies.[3]
Film adaptation
The novel was adapted to a 1998 movie of the same name directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney as Foley and Jennifer Lopez as Sisco. In 2003–04, an ABC-TV series followed, Karen Sisco, starring Carla Gugino as Sisco.[3]
Foley's character returned in Leonard's 2009 novel, Road Dogs.[4]